Library Reads

Featuring books from the two newest monthly lists of the top books that librarians across the country love - from www.libraryreads.org
 

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1. Sky full of elephants

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Author:
Campbell, Cebo
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8 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
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"One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he's now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn't even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white...

2. An academy for liars

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Author:
Henderson, Alexis
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8 copies, 38 people are on the wait list.
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"Lennon Carter's life is falling apart. Then she gets a mysterious phone call inviting her to take the entrance exam for Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in a secret pocket of Savannah. Lennon has been chosen because-like everyone else at the school-she has the innate gift of persuasion, the ability to wield her will like a weapon, using it to control others and, in rare cases, matter itself. After passing the test, Lennon begins to learn...

3. A dark and drowning tide

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Author:
Saft, Allison
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8 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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"A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in this lush and enthralling sapphic fantasy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic"--

4. The village library demon-hunting society

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Author:
Waggoner, C. M.
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"A librarian with a knack for solving murders soon realizes there is something supernatural afoot in her little town in this cozy fantasy mystery. Librarian Sherry Pinkwhistle keeps finding bodies - and solving murders. But she's concerned by just how many killers she's had to track down in her quaint village. None of her neighbors seem surprised by the rising body count...but Sherry is becoming convinced that whatever has been causing these deaths...